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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
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Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
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